The only classic Kenner Star Wars action figure from the original twenty that I never, ever got: the red R5-D4. Also, I always wanted but never got the Death Star Playset or the part-cardboard/part-plastic Carbon Freezing Chamber where you could "freeze" figures by dropping or lowering them into the open pit.

I also wanted that awesome ST:TMP Enterprise toy/model with the electric lighting effects that was in stores in Christmas of 1979 and during 1980 but it cost way too much.

I was obsessed with LEGO and I wanted to buy really expensive ones with my own money (so just about everything I had!), like Star Wars ships.. or something like that. My parents wouldn't let me because they thought I'd get bored of it before long. Sure enough, within a year or two I was less obsessed.

Yes. And then you could shove them back in there when you were done playing with them.

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HAHAHAHA shove them back.. for repeated puppy surprises.

AND I bet kids were shoving all kinds of things in there.

"Look mommy, she's had matchbox car babies!!"

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It's so funny you mention that, because my sisters and I used to do exactly that! She had a puppy surprise and we both loved matchbox cars, so they were often combined. As well as the matchbox cars and Barbies.

For some reason I backed off from wanting him after getting a chance to play with one. He was an obsession before that, but my parents weren't going to buy him anyways....if I was going to get one it would have come from a grandparent, friend or extended family.

Nowadays you could download content into him through a USB port in his back, which means you could probably program a 2013 Teddy Ruxpin to say or sing anything if the mechanics permit his mouth to mimic any sound being emitted.

Does 14 count as a child? I wanted Marta Kristen from Lost in Space. I wouldn't have known what to do with her, but I still wanted her. All my siblings were over 18 and out of the house by the time I was 3.

When I was 5, I wanted one of those pedal-cars like my friends had. They looked like these (50s styles):